Word: sprints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although unable to bend his heavily-bandaged knee, Cairns attempted to run the 880, and actually led for the first 350 yards, at which point he was forced to drop out. With an incipient Yale sweep threatened, French Anderson forced his way into third place with a dogged sprint which almost carried him past Yale's Ed Hedeen, who placed second. Yale's Slowik...
...plagued varsity crew practices all week long, continued its devilment last Saturday as a 15 m.p.h. head-wing during the varsity race brought whitecaps to the Charles River and frustration to the rowers. When the race was over, a strong Princeton eight had outclassed the Crimson with a blistering sprint in the last quarter mile to win the Compton...
...Tiger eight quickly jumped to a slight lead at the start and kept command throughout the race, withstanding a Crimson sprint near the end. "The JV rowers had few misgivings at the end of their race," Coach Harvey Love commented, "nor should they; they were beaten by a better crew...
...mile, Reider passed pace-setter Phil Williams at the 660 mark, with Zwirner nearly ten yards behind in third place. The three entered the final lap neck and neck, but with 220 yards to go Zwirner began his sprint, which opened ground on Reider with every step. Zwirner finished 20 yards ahead of Reider in 4:16.4, a new meet record...
...back to set another meet record in the two-mile. Reider, who had set the pace for most of the race, held a lead of at least 30 yards as Zwirner went into the last lap. Reider began to kick, but on the back-stretch Zwirner opened up a sprint which carried him past Reider at the beginning of the straightaway to win by ten yards in 9:24.3. Dyke Benjamin took third for the varsity...